Depression Quotes

2071 Depression quotes by 1126 unique authors

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. — Johan Huizinga
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. — Robert Green Ingersoll
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death,… — Eugene Ionesco
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. — Jesse Jackson
One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit… — Kay Redfield Jamison
We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in… — Quincy Jones
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. — Carl Jung
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. — Jackie Kennedy
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature,… — Franz Kafka
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. — Franz Kafka
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. — Franz Kafka
I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal. — Byron Katie
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? — John Keats
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. — John Keats
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. — Helen Keller
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts… — Grenville Kleiser
All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them. — Jeffrey Kluger
My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing… — Lee Krasner
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. — Akira Kurosawa
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. — R. D. Laing
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. — Gary Larson
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable… — John Lennon
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. — Oscar Levant
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The nearer the dawn the darker the night. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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